School: Scoil na gCailíní, Iomaire Buidhe (roll number 9818)
- Location:
- An tIomaire Buí Thoir, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: E. Bean Uí Shuibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0355, Page 379
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- Local Cures. 12-9-'38
In times gone by our Grand-Mothers had very different cures for diseases from what we now have. Doctors were very seldom called fro sickness. There was always some old woman in the neighbourhood that gave them the simple home cures.
Children having whooping cough the leavings of a ferret were supposed to be their cure Measels were supposed to be cured by drinking donkeys with milk. Thrush was supposed to be cured by boiling wild woodbine and then wash down the throat of the patient with the water that boiled it.
The cure for ring worm was to cut the top of a black casts ear and rub the blood to the ring worm. A rub of a dead man's finger was supposed to cure a tooth ache.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Riordan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An tOileán Breac, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Eugene Riordan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- An tOileán Breac, Co. Chorcaí
